Hold on to the Nickel until the Buffalo Squeals They stopped making the Buffalo nickel in 1938, long before I was born. But I saw plenty of them when I was young. I also heard plenty about them from older folks who had lived through the Depression. “Hold on to the...
Another Fairfax County Family Wastes Thousands with Freedom Debt Relief. I filed a bankruptcy case this week for Alexander and Alina yesterday. They had been enrolled with Freedom Debt Relief for over five years–the longest enrollment I ever heard of. And...
Holly Gets Hired After Bankruptcy and Gets a New Company Credit Card Holly was at the end of her rope. She’d been out of work for two years; she kept getting interviews but no offers; and she was feeding partial payments to her creditors, to try to keep them off...
I hate it when people do illegal stuff to my customers. For a consumer bankruptcy lawyer, I’m litigious. I’m quick to sue. People in financial trouble can be magnets for illegal stuff. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act violations. Fair Credit Reporting...
For some people, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the best way to stop foreclosure in Virginia. Some people think the only way to stop a foreclosure is a Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Mark and Tina Allen (not their real names) got a Virginia bankruptcy lawyer who thought that. When...
Can filing bankruptcy make you smarter? A new book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, explains why filing bankruptcy can make you smarter about money. The book authors, Harvard Professor Sendhil Mullainatha and Princeton Professor Eldar Shafir,...
